Spike
proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue
A male nickname.
proper noun
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A male nickname.
This book contains mostly humorous animal poems by poets such as Spike Milligan, Theodore Roethke, and Rudyard Kipling.
He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.
Etymology
From spike, variously from having spiky hair, being thin (like a railroad spike), etc.
proper noun
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A surname transferred from the nickname.
Etymology
From spike, perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin person.
Forms
- plural
- Spikes